R: Find Nested Communities

getAllNestedComm {linkcomm} | R Documentation

## Find Nested Communities

### Description

This function returns communities of nodes that are entirely nested within other larger communities of nodes.

### Usage

    getAllNestedComm(x, verbose = FALSE, plot = FALSE)

### Arguments

`x` | An object of class `linkcomm`.
`verbose` | Logical, whether to print to the screen a warning that individual community IDs are not clustered in any other communities. Defaults to FALSE.
`plot` | Logical, whether to plot graphs of the nested communities. Defaults to FALSE.

### Details

Nested community structures may reveal interesting relationships among sets of nodes.

### Value

A named list of integer vectors; names are integers referring to nested communities, and the integer vectors are the communities that the named community is nested in.

### Author(s)

Alex T. Kalinka alex.t.kalinka@gmail.com

### References

Kalinka, A.T. and Tomancak, P. (2011). linkcomm: an R package for the generation, visualization, and analysis of link communities in networks of arbitrary size and type. Bioinformatics 27, 2011-2012.

### See Also

`getNestedHierarchies`

### Examples

    ## Generate graph and extract link communities.
    g <- swiss[,3:4]
    lc <- getLinkCommunities(g)

    ## Find nested communities.
    getAllNestedComm(lc)

[Package linkcomm version 1.0-14 Index]